Baseball Falls Late at Georgia State to Wrap Up Opening Weekend

Sunday, February 26

Atlanta, Ga.

11 a.m.

Brown University

0-3

Georgia State

4-3

Brown

Georgia State

Baseball Falls Late at Georgia State to Wrap Up Opening Weekend

2/26/2023 9:42:00 PM | Baseball

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ATLANTA, Ga. – A three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning by Georgia State helped the Panthers rally past Brown for a 6-5 win on Sunday afternoon, completing a four-game sweep.

GAME ONE
The teams began the day by concluding their suspended game from Saturday, which Georgia State took by a final of 10-1. The game resumed in the fifth inning, when Ray Sass drove in Gunner Boree with an RBI double down the left field line to make it a 4-1 game. GSU tacked on four in the sixth and two in the eighth for the win.

GAME TWO
In the series finale, senior Derian Morphew went 4-for-5 with two RBIs out of the leadoff spot, and sophomore Conor Cooke went 2-for-4 at the plate with two runs scored and an RBI in his collegiate debut. Freshman Dylan Reid made his first career start on the mound and allowed just one run on four hits over 5.0 innings of work with four strikeouts.

The Bears outhit Georgia State 10-8 in the series finale and held a two-run lead twice in the late innings, but the Panthers answered right back in the bottom of the inning each time.

Trailing 1-0 in the top of the third, Cooke led off and singled to left field in his first career at bat, advanced to second on a sac bunt by Sass, then scored on a double by Morphew to tie the game 1-1.

The Bears grabbed their first lead of the series in the sixth with three straight singles to start the frame. Jared Johnson later tagged a two-out single to left field to plate Mika Petersen with an insurance run to put Brown up 3-1.

Georgia State tied it up with a two-run homer in the bottom of the inning before the Bears clawed back and went up 5-3 in the eighth on an RBI single by Cooke and an RBI double by Morphew.

However, the long ball did in the Bears once more in the eighth inning when a three-run homer with two outs gave the Panthers the 6-5 lead, and they retired the side in order in the ninth to secure the weekend sweep.

Brown will head back down south for a three-game series next Friday-Sunday at the University of New Orleans. All three games will be streamed live on ESPN+.

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